ABOUT
Celine Coustaut
Co-founder, Marketing & Operations
With a strong background and experience in Marketing and Corporate Communications, Celine Coustaut started The IT Press Tour in June 2010, realizing what she found out on the market during the last decade. In a nutshell, US based IT Companies need more press coverage in EMEA especially recent vendors and EMEA press wishes to meet emerging players and hot technology actors.
In parallel, she participated in the creation and launch of Cloudwatt, the leading french cloud service provider, and currently delivers her marketing expertise to the company communication marketing effort.
Celine started Condor Consulting Group in 2009 to support The IT Press Tour project. Before, Celine spent some time at Credit Agricole, Neolane, Veritas Software and Compaq. During the Veritas period, she collaborated also with SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) and worked for a French press agency early in her career.
Philippe Nicolas
Co-founder, Creator & Ambassador
Based in San Francisco, Philippe Nicolas observes the storage industry for almost 3 decades. Recognized for his market expertise, he belongs to the top 5 analysts in data management and storage. He is also the founder and lead analyst at Coldago Research.
He’s often invited to provide advices to IT enterprises and investors and produces events such The IT Press Tour, The Innov Tour and others.
He has previously collaborated to the development of several companies at key moment in their growth, for instance at Scality, Brocade, Symantec, Veritas Software, SGI and Compaq.
He also drove the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) in France for almost 10 years and was board director 4 years at the European level. He’s the author of several reference tutorials for the SNIA and wrote frequently in Le Monde Informatique, StorageNewsletter and in his 2 famous dedicated blogs File Storage and Continuous Data Protection launched in 2005 with more then 2000 posts as of today. He’s reachable via his twitter handle @CDP_FST.
"We are excited to host the IT Press Tour again. In the past year, Docker and Kubernetes adoption in Europe has skyrocketed. Yet organizations still need the tooling to properly run containers in production effectively. We're excited to partner with this elite group of journalists to show their audiences the latest in securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting containers."
Loris Degioanni
former CEO and founder
Sysdig
“Kaminario’s cloud data platform makes moving to the cloud lightning fast, enabling companies to migrate their critical apps to the cloud without the pain of re-engineering them first. We are looking forward to sharing milestones and key updates on our latest strategy with Europe’s highly influential journalists."
Dani Golan
CEO
Kaminario
